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Through the Looking Glass and into the Land of Lexico-Grammar
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Hancioglu, Nilgun; Neufeld, Steven; Eldridge, John – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
This article describes two complementary research projects into lexical patterning and frequency in general and academic English. The research suggests that treating current popularly used wordlists such as the General Service List (GSL) and the Academic Word List (AWL) as distinct constructs is of questionable merit. Rather, there are strong…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Word Frequency, English (Second Language), Academic Discourse